Friedrich Hayek argumentó que el intervencionismo manipula “conocimiento local” dentro de la sociedad, lo cual es perjudicial para su economía. Tras una explicación sobre cómo puede alterar carácter las personas, este artículo se enfoca en manipulación del conocimiento local ciudad a través “planificación urbana racionalista” particular. Después contextualizar debate entre Jane Jacobs y Robert ...

This article aims to compare the change of living standard in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia after joining European Union. The characteristics are analyzing before EU 2004. It is also compared changes economic crisis. Indicators standard, such as average monthly gross wages, consumer price index, purchasing power, unemployment rate, at-risk-of-poverty rate others calculated compared. three Balti...

Elucidating the structure of Aβ(1-40) fibrils is of interest in Alzheimer's disease research because it is required for designing therapeutics that target Aβ(1-40) fibril formation at an early stage of the disease. M35 is a crucial residue because of its potential oxidation and its strong interactions across β-strands and across β-sheets in Aβ fibrils. Experimentally, data for the three-fold sy...

Some managerial innovations (MIs) spread widely, and others do not. To gain a better understanding of why, the current empirical study offers rare qualitative exploration interplay two approaches to MI diffusion: rational institutional. Using case emergent mindfulness-based interventions at work, authors show that, many attributes traditionally cited explain diffusion, those pertaining compatib...

This article explores the level of Women’s Empowerment (W’E) from six empowerment domains: decision-making, autonomy, access and control resources, community participation, participation in business management, within context corn-tortilla value chain. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect data through survey method participant observation. The sample consisted 136 women producers...

Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on social exclusion of immigrants in Germany. We demonstrate that when using a conventional definition of the social inclusion index typically applied in the literature, immigrants appear to experience a significant degree of social deprivation and exclusion, confirming much of the economic...

This paper provides a summary of the findings contained in a forthcoming issue of the Latin American Journal of Economics on entrepreneurship in Latin America as a vehicle for upward social mobility, especially for the middle class. The income persistence coefficients estimated with pseudo-panel data for Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay indicate that entrepreneurial activity is a channel of inter...

Death, Happiness, and the Calculation of Compensatory Damages This paper studies the mental distress caused by bereavement. The largest emotional losses are from the death of a spouse; the second-worst in severity are the losses from the death of a child; the third-worst is the death of a parent. The paper explores how happiness regression equations might be used in tort cases to calculate comp...

Empirical studies on the relationship between income and happiness commonly use standard ordered response models, the most well-known representatives being the ordered logit and the ordered probit. However, these models restrict the marginal probability effects by design, and therefore limit the analysis of distributional aspects of a change in income, that is, the study of whether the income e...